But it was there, and it affected their decision, as lurking passions and self-interests always will, as surely as iron deflects the compass.
Thus He assumes a function high above that of any prophet or teacher: He not only reveals duty, as a lamp casts light upon the compass by which men steer; but He modifies duty itself, as iron deflects the needle.
Good enough," he says as he gently deflects the Elevator and points the nose of the Aeroplane upwards in search of the elusive Best Climbing Angle.
After reaching the village of Spring Green, the road to Helena, the location of the old shot tower, crosses the Wisconsin River anddeflects to the left.
Newton began by an assumption that the force which at each instant deflects a planet from its rectilineal course, and makes it describe a curve round the sun, is a force tending directly toward the sun.
Upon entering the right bronchus, the handle of the bronchoscope is turned horizontally to the right, and at the same time the assistant deflects the head to the left.
Hence the direction falls off and at the pole is itself nothing: and for that reason a feebler direction is easily vanquished by the stronger causes of variation, and near the pole the versorium deflects the more from the meridian.
Every painter can tell us how each added line deflects his picture in a certain sense.
Sometimes the current is so sent through the two coils, that each coil deflects the needle in the same direction.
It is, as we have already said, that the resistance which opposes the motion shall bear a considerable proportion to the force which deflects the motion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deflects" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
